Text Appearing Before Image: 232 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL plored by several prehistorians, includ- ing M. Reverdit (more than thirty years ago) and the Abbe Landesque. Recently M. L. Didon, proprietor of the Grand Hotel du Commerce et des Postes at Perigueux, took leases on some of the more promising shelters and began exca- vations. The excavations at the Abri Blanchard des Roches, a station rep- resenting the Middle Aurignacian Epoch, had been practically completed before our visit and a papsr ^ published on the the valley and within but little more than a stone's throw is the Abri Blanch- ard des Roches, from which likewise the New York museum secured a col- lection. When one comes to weigh the various elements in Aurignacian culture and compare them with Mousterian culture the differences are at once seen to be as great as the physical differences that separate Homo neandertalensis from the Aurignacian races. The change from Text Appearing After Image: Perforated shells used for personal adornment from the Abri Blanchard (Dordogne) of the Middle Aurignacian Epoch results. Station No. 2 des Roches de Sergeac, belonging to the upper Aurig- nacian epoch had been partially explored by M. Didon who found there not only the large engraved figure of a horse but also many industrial remains of which the American Museum obtained the greater part. These objects were found halfway up the sloping hillside under a thick coating of talus that once formed the overhanging rock. Diagonally across 1L. Didon in Bull. Soc. Hist, et Archgologique du Perigord P6rigueux, 1911. lower palaeolithic to upper palaeolithic is so great as to mark in all probability the invasion of a superior race with more advanced culture standards. This new race colonized practically the whole of the Mediterranean coast, African as well as European. The Aurignacians might have come from x\frica. One can scarcely think of an oriental origin, for early Aurignacian culture has not as yet been found in Eastern Europe, as pointed out by Breuil. Lithically the Aurignacian was the
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